Trina Hogg

Trina Hogg is an Associate Professor of History at Oregon State University, where she works on African history, colonial law, and nineteenth-century Sierra Leone. She was a PRAx humanities research fellow in 2018-2019. Her first book, The Paradox of Protection, was published by Michigan State University Press in 2025. Her research looks at how African leaders and British officials used the idea of protection to negotiate commerce, sovereignty, and authority on the imperial frontier. She has also written on detention, deportation, warfare, and colonial courts. She received a 2024 CLA Bill and Caroline Wilkins Faculty Development Award.